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He was the most disinterested man I ever knew in public life.
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Hoar describes a political figure's selflessness in public service, emphasizing their integrity.
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It would have been a worse civil war than that of the Rebellion, because the country would have been divided not by sections, but by parties.
He proceeded to attack, to promote his own ambitions, the fair name and fame of the Commonwealth itself.
The irrepressible conflict had to be fought out.
But their names were wanting from the honorable roll of the men who accomplished them.
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